tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post2365036085048536108..comments2023-10-30T09:26:32.732+00:00Comments on Now's the time: unfolding, new view, parrotAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06972049290586377462noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-8871176628183243242009-07-22T16:24:48.900+01:002009-07-22T16:24:48.900+01:00C: I can only think that this crow was thinking, ...C: I can only think that this crow was thinking, I've no time for that idiot parrot.<br /><br />M-L: Out agapanthus only just survived the winter, producimg just three bloom in contrast with the 18 last year.<br /><br />BB: I remember Edmund Crispin and Gervase Fen, but not the parrot. Parrots may sometimes be funny superficially but there is an undelying sadness about the creatures. Perhaps because they are so out of place in cages and yet seem to have accepted the constraints imposed on them. Their immitative calls seem to be a commentary on their condition. The Crispin parrot's singing illustrates this well.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06972049290586377462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-26706484348785945932009-07-22T11:33:20.714+01:002009-07-22T11:33:20.714+01:00Your parrot reminds me of the forgotten (?) whodun...Your parrot reminds me of the forgotten (?) whodunnit writer Edmund Crispin (in real life the composer Bruce Montgomery) who wrote round the Eng.lit. don, Gervase Fen. Animals figure as leitmotifs in several of his novels. In one there is the "non-doing pig" and in another a parrot in a pub which has wrenched out all its feathers from the neck down and which sings <em>Die Lorelei</em> from chapter to chapter. The final chapter ends, rather movingly, with the final words <em>"... und hat ich mit ihren Singen die Lorelei getan."</em>Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-55250470833029016022009-07-21T17:46:07.826+01:002009-07-21T17:46:07.826+01:00How fascinating is the voice of the parrot! Even a...How fascinating is the voice of the parrot! Even a crow, for I remember one in the Winnipeg Zoo who kept saying 'hot dog, hot dog'!<br /><br />Seeing your lovely agapanthus makes me sad that I lost mine to our past harsh winter.marja-leenahttp://www.marja-leena-rathje.infonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-51992186193585553562009-07-21T17:32:53.333+01:002009-07-21T17:32:53.333+01:00I have given up trying to understand what crows th...I have given up trying to understand what crows think, although I do believe that they are blessed with thought.<br /><br />:)The Crowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04846997590157958766noreply@blogger.com